Oral History Workshop: Summaries and Transcripts
A half-day workshop on documenting oral history interviews using content summaries and transcripts.
The sessions will cover how to choose the right style of documentation for your project, quality checking, preparing transcripts for project outputs such as exhibition texts and publications, and considerations when using AI for documentation. There will also be discussions on how your choice of documentation affects processes such as sensitivity reviewing, preparing for archive deposit, future thematic analysis and reuse.
The training programme is accredited by National Life Stories at the British Library and the Oral History Society.
Who is the workshop for?
This workshop is designed for anyone who is recording oral history interviews or preparing interview documentation.
This workshop does not cover oral history interview technique or recording methods. These topics are covered on other courses such as Introduction to Oral History and the Advanced Oral History Workshop.
Please note:
- There will be no refunds for cancelled places.
- Due to high demand and in order to ensure that each course has attendees with a variety of interests and backgrounds, a maximum of three people from any one institution may book to attend each course.
- There are two methods of payment. You can pay online via PayPal, debit or credit card or you can make an offline payment where an invoice will be sent to your organisation. Please select the appropriate option in the booking form.
- If you choose to pay by invoice please note that payments for training courses will be made to National Life Stories (NLS), and the invoice will be sent by email from NLS within ten working days of your booking. Contact the Training Coordinator if you require further details for your purchase order number.
- In booking this training course you agree to follow the OHS Code of Conduct.
Please contact the Training Coordinator if you would like to be notified of future dates.
Course schedule
This online training workshop is delivered over Zoom video call. The programme is as follows (please note this is a sample structure and may differ on the day).
Timezone: London, UK.
Hourly Schedule
Online workshop
- 09:30 - 10:15
- Introductions and opening discussion
- 10:15 - 11:00
- Summarising and practical exercise
- 11:00 - 11:15
- Break
- 11:15 - 12:10
- About oral history transcription
- 12:10 - 12:25
- Break
- 12:25 - 13:00
- Transcription exercise and quality checking
- 13:00 - 13:15
- Closing discussion
- 02 Feb 2027
- 9:30 am - 1:15 pm
- Zoom call Time zone: London, United Kingdom GB
Organizer
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Camille Johnston
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Email
[email protected] Oral History Training Administrator
Speakers
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Alison ChandBL/OHS Trainer; OHS Regional AdviserI’m a regional adviser for Scotland for the OHS and a BL/OHS accredited oral history trainer. In addition, I deliver training for the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde, where I am a research associate and teach on various undergraduate and postgraduate history modules, including the ‘Oral History Theory and Practice’ and ‘Work and Community Placement in Oral History’ modules. I am also a part-time lecturer with the Centre for History at the University of the Highlands and Islands and undertake freelance work as an oral historian, proofreader and copy-editor. I actively undertake oral history research, and am currently working on a BA/Leverhulme-funded project entitled ‘Rainbows in the Windows: An Oral History of Young Families in Britain in the COVID-19 Pandemic’. Please do get in touch if you are in Scotland and would like any advice on oral history.
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Michelle WinslowBL/OHS Trainer; OHS Regional AdviserMy roles within the OHS are Regional Network Adviser (South Yorkshire) and Accredited Trainer. I deliver courses in project management and palliative care as well as introductory and advanced courses. In my day job at the University of Sheffield I teach public health subjects and oral history in the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery. I have worked on numerous oral history projects and specialise in palliative care and end-of-life. Since 2007 I’ve led an oral history project that offers people admitted to a Palliative Care Unit in Sheffield opportunities to create life history recordings for research and as personal and family records.
